Nothing To Hide: monochrom arbeitet an einem
Dokumentarfilm über das Ende der Privatsphäre
Ein Film von Johannes Grenzfurthner
Drehbuch: Christian Heller, Johannes Grenzfurthner und Roland Gratzer
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Is privacy dying? More and more of our data
is recorded, analyzed and distributed. Avoiding
surveillance networks, our oversharing friends
and invasive services becomes ever more costly,
while the algorithms to mine this data for deeper
knowledge on us keep improving.
Can privacy or "data protection" laws curb
the trend? The governments tasked with enforcing
them themselves the biggest surveillance actors,
unwilling to hurt their own intelligence
abilities. The internet users whom these laws are
supposed to protect thrust them aside every day,
in exchange for greater social connection, and
the integration of useful computer intelligence into their lives.
Liberalism praises privacy as a core value
and safeguard to personal freedom. But this value
evolved only in recent centuries, as part of the
ideology of bourgeois society and its core unit:
the patriarchal nuclear family. The value of
privacy atomized and individualized many social
issues as "private matters," taboo to public
discussion and politicking. It sequestered women
and children into privacy zones protected and
isolated from the public; zones of safety, but
also powerlessness. The 20th century's
emancipatory movements reasonably attacked
(though rarely fully abolished) these kinds of
privacy, often with slogans like "the personal is
political," and with public happenings and coming-outs.
To these earlier challenges to the value of
privacy, the internet age adds ideas such as
"data love", "the quantified self" and
"lifelogging". These promise the enhancement of
our memory, cognition and communication through
the generation and sharing of abundant data on
anything, including the personal. But can such
gains by themselves make up for the problems
caused by the privacy losses that they demand?
What are those problems, anyway? Many of
them may derive from social pressures that were
once deemed sufferable, if barely, because
privacy promised a refuge from them. Will we now
need solutions more radical than privacy to
confine these pressures? How might such
emancipatory post-privacy tactics look like? How
can we: Force transparency on the power
accumulations protected by secrecy? Adapt
coming-out strategies developed in LGBT
environments? Learn to use increasing
communication and visibility between all of us to
find social support and organize resistance
against repression, be it repression of
long-running forms, or forms that come with losing privacy?
Could we stop worrying and embrace the end of privacy?
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"Nothing To Hide" befindet sich derzeit in Produktion.
http://www.nothingtohidefilm.com
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